This movie has a great Gen Y ensemble cast, including Peter Facinelli (Riding in Cars With Boys), Ethan Embry (Can't Hardly Wait), Scott Foley (Felicity), and a cameo by Jennifer Garner (Alias). The clever script has its ups and downs, but is generally carried well throughout the movie. Marc Fusco's (Steven Spielberg's personal assistant) direction is stylized and stimulating, thoroughly disguising the use of digital video. Although it starts out as a millennial update to Saint Elmo's Fire, the unique spirit of this film saves it from tedium, and the twisty ending elevates it far above the ordinary. Rennie's Landing sucks you in from the first frames, and doesn't let go until long after the credits have rolled.
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Dahmer
(2002)
A fascinating story gone to waste...
21 June 2002
Watching `Dahmer' is an upsetting experience. Not because of the movie's content, rather because of the lack thereof. The film concentrates more on Dahmer's homosexuality than his murderous nature, and though he is surely twisted, we don't really get into his mind enough to realize why, or to what extent. Renner is a great talent, and plays Dahmer to eerie perfection, but he cannot create what was never there - a compelling story. For two hours we bounce back and forth between Dahmer's adolescence and young adulthood, watching him prey upon innocent males, and then the movie ends without climax or resolution. One is struck with a sense of loss at what the movie could have been.
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